[nailer]

pg has steadfastly refused to limit topic discussion beyond the wide ranging and vague 'anything that may be on interest to hackers'.

[lotharbot]

In the guidelines [0], immediately after the aforementioned vague comment, pg gives some specific restrictions:

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

[0] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[meric]

"If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

I don't think they'd cover this on TV news.

[ak39]

:)

[JS_startup]

Not sure why 'hackers' would care about Israel-Palestine drama

[rdtsc]

They might not but they might care about Solar panels. That is probably why it was submitted.

[hamoid]

Because they like thinking about solutions to difficult problems?